Fig. 47 in Emergence and collapse of the Frasnian conodont and ammonoid communities in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

Fig. 47. Succession of the earliest Famennian Klapperilepis gen. nov. populations at Płucki (see also Fig. 46). Aratio of the relative extent of the free carina (C/L) to the caudal lobe proclination angle is plotted for P1 (sp) elements. All measurable palmatolepidid platform elements from each sample are included (shape of the platform alone does not allow to discriminate species; they differ also in their more or less flat appearance). The number of species changes from one (Pł−20 and Pł−16) to two (Pł−42) to three (Pł−32). The pattern of variability of K. praetriangularis in the first Famennian sample Pł−20 (where it occurs alone as the only palmatolepidid) is indistinguishable from that in the latest Frasnian. Note increase of variability in sample Pł−16 which may be an effect of released competition from other palmatolepidids and character displacement in Pł−42, where the lineage of K. clarki appears, documented both by the diagnostic M (ne) elements and bimodal frequency distribution of P1 elements morphs. Subsequent changes resulted from a combination of immigration events and a phyletic evolution at the site.